ANDREW BOLT|Old Dog Thoughts |
News Corporation employs Andrew Bolt and provides him with a platform ensuring the inequality of speech. Bolt's Blog not only advocates conservative, right wing and Tea Party views it moderates out most opposing opinions which he is entitled to do. However Andrew Bolt simply lies when he says he provides an arena for fair and balanced discussion in a no spin zone. He doesn't it's all spin.
Saturday 25 May 2019
Against Fake News,24/5/19; Julian Assange Changed the World; Speers Jumps Ships;
The Deputy Editor of the Sunday Telegraph Clair Harvey was true to Murdoch Media form on The Drum last night in her Ultra conservative "opinion" on Assange. 1) she didn't like him, and she was glad he was such an unlikeable character. Now that's the Murdochian approach to Islam, Africans in Australia "we just don't like them" so isn't that great my opinions have relevance and substance on that basis alone.
Assange isn't a Journalist, despite the fact he won a Wakely award. Harvey replied that the Journalist Associations vote to do so "shamed" the very notion of journalism. If shame is brought down on journalists and their low reputation, it's been because of the Murdoch media's model of business which is rapidly ridding itself of journalists altogether. How arrogant was that of Harvey? While she seems an outsider, a non-member, we must assume she is but hardly a respected one. She works for an organisation that, in fact, shames the profession daily with it's racist, ethnocentric, and religious opinions that guiltlessly tar whole groups and communities of Australians promoting division and exclusion like Muzac to the public daily, and not just occasionally.
Clair Harvey was judge and jury all in one and clearly hoped Assange was morally hanged drawn and quartered. She did protect herself by saying that would be a step too far and he shouldn't be imprisoned. She was no doubt sitting on the kerbside yelling he's guilty thumbs down. Australian or not she was clearly presenting the editorial opinions of the head office of Fox Corp in the USA. The opinion genuinely hers maybe but certainly aligned with her paymasters the Murdochs. Now that's hardly "fair and balanced", mind you, she was invited on the ABC which does try to be even-handed. Murdoch's vigilantes are everywhere in the Anglosphere competing for the consumer dollar less than they are that of the top end of Aus. Clive Palmer gave them a fortune along with other advertisers, and they weren't promoting the Labour cause.
Imagine Barr has an exclusive right to interpret what's in classified material in Trump's favour, which could go so far as to suggest Alexander Downer was a Russian mole. Given Trump's history, it far from being impossible. (ODT)
Key points: Mr Trump declassified documents that prompted Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian collusion It's believed these documents could relate to a meeting Mr Downer had with a Trump campaign official in 2016 The US Attorney-General has the power to reveal the documents publicly, drawing criticism he will present misleading information favouring Mr Trump
The truth: editorial interference at News Corp and Sky was just too much Whittaker, the former editor-in-chief of the Australian, came to Sky after a 30-year career at News Corp where he was a hands-on editor with a skill for running campaigns for the Murdoch empire. While Frangopoulos managed to keep the widely respected Speers on board at Sky – despite multiple approaches from the ABC and the commercial networks – Whittaker is believed to have irritated the Walkley award-winner by being too interventionist.
Despite Sky's low ratings – most programs average fewer than 200,000 weekly viewers – Speers' interviews are frequently reported in other media outlets. "The power of that amplification is a huge benefit for Sky," Allen says. Related Article Cassidy summarises the morning's political news on the 'Sunday Papers' segment. 'The most unfashionable rock star': How ABC's Insiders beat Sunrise and Today "You can't just stick someone else in his chair and hope for the same result. It takes years to cultivate the kind of contacts David has. When he leaves with his little black book, it'll be a loss for Sky."
Cassidy – a former press secretary to the late Labor prime minister Bob Hawke – founded Insiders in 2001.
The day after the election, a fuming Kevin Rudd took to Twitter. "In all the election commentary last night, not a single word on the elephant in the room," the former prime minister wrote.
"Murdoch, with 70 per cent control of Australia’s print media, ran the single most biased campaign in Australian political history. Reason for the silence? People are in fear of Murdoch’s power."
“We have two Australias,” says regional economist Terry Rawnsley. “One which has benefited from a generation of economic change including deregulation, reduced trade barriers, technological change and globalisation is in the inner cities. Then we have another Australia which has struggled with these changes, including the loss of manufacturing jobs, increased job insecurity, little growth in wealth.”
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